Latest Fishing Reports: Yorkshire and the Humber
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15/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
15 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
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With the neap tides we ventured offside like the day before.
Overall on both trips the anglers had a mixed bag of fish
With many species making an appearance
For cod, ling, pouting , whiting, haddock, coalfish, and mackerel
Heaviest fish today was a Cracking cod for Steve weighing just over 15lb
No rigs seemed to be preference today with shads occasionally working and baited traces and hokkais also.
Not the greatest weather today with torrential rain but the anglers seemed to enjoy themselves regardless
And they all got a glimpse of the passing minke whales.
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14/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
14 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
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With the neap tides we ventured offside where fishing was nothing special just steadily plucking at fish all weekend.
Overall the anglers had a good mixed bag of fish
With many species making an appearance
For cod, ling, pouting , whiting, coalfish, mackerel and a gray gurnard.
Heaviest fish was a ling around 12lb but what was nice to see was a good few codling showing
Baited hokkais and flowing traces seamed to be most productive. View Boats Page
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08/09/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
8 Sep 2024 by Andy Savage
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Weekend catch report aboard Sea Urchin.
We had the back end of the Spring Tides to work with the last two days; a 5.4m on Saturday and a 5.2m today. This was always going to present challenging fishing conditions, as almost the entire weekend would be spent drifting the various rough ground marks. We’ve been struggling to find many fish on the ground with the copious amounts of feed in the water, so it was a case of cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Luckily there were rafts of Mackerel to get us started; one drift gave loads of bait for each of the days. We started of trying the three mile ground, but with the tide pushing the boat through at almost two knots, moved out to the five mile ground, which was also unproductive. Both days gave very slow starts with just a couple of fish boated by late morning. A move out to the nine mile ground gave us the best results.
With us fishing the WCSA Autumn Festival, we were really looking for one big fish, and the lads understood that and credit to them, they all battled on both days. We found one patch which gave us fish on Saturday and today, so we spent a few hours there maximising it. Neil Fell-Edwards has fished with me for a couple of years and has been after a double figure Ling for that time. I was made up for him yesterday when he caught himself an 11lb 13oz fish giving him a new Pb. Well done Neil.
Today the same ground gave us an even better result when on only his second boat fishing trip, Richard Szpijak hooked into what looked like the bottom. He just couldn’t move it with the light rod he was using……then I saw it “nod”! After confirming it was indeed a fish, Richard wrestled for about five minutes with what was obviously a very good fish. As he was fishing under the boat, we didn’t see the fish approaching, but then a massive head appeared and the body just kept on coming. After only two trips, he now has a new Pb Ling of 23lb 3oz!! When your luck’s in, it’s in!
The fishing was hard all weekend and I really want to thanks the lads for being fantastic company and sticking with it, even when the lines were streaming and we weren’t getting anything. Well done lads. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
31/08/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
31 Aug 2024 by Nick Gough
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Some of the better fish from today's trips
We started the day running out to the inshore wrecks with the plan to keep running offshore.
First wreck fishing was steady with strappy ling coming up with the occasional better ling round 11 to 12lb mark we tried several other wrecks while running offshore this seemed to be what all the wrecks produced today nothing really much bigger. We did find more cod today than yesterday but they were around the 2 to 4lb area so we didn't take photos.
Heaviest fish today was a ling weighing 14lb 2oz caught by Jamie who had been fishing with us on Wednesday and really struggled to get a decent fish.
As well as the ling and cod the anglers also caught whiting, pouting, a red gurnard and a few mackerel.
The 3 hour trip we ran inshore as the sea had picked up a bit and from the start the anglers got strait into the mackerel after a few drift they managed to find a few nice Pollock around the 4 to 5lb area and a codling and coalfish
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31/08/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
31 Aug 2024 by Andy Savage
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Today I once again had the pleasure of The Keel Inn Fishing Club from Barnsley aboard. They came with a slightly depleted crew, with only five anglers able to make the trip this time, but they more than made up for it with the brilliant banter they have.
After encouraging results yesterday and with ESE winds forecast for the afternoon, we had a chat and the lads were happy to run south to some wrecks in a similar area as the day before, which involved a bit of a steam, pushing tide. The sea was almost flat clam when we arrived at the first wreck and when three rods of the five went straight in I breathed a sigh of relief; there were a few feeding fish at home. Like the previous day, the stamp of mainly Ling was decent again.
In fairly short order, “Chips” Mallin bumped two (or maybe the same) what he said felt like big fish. Next drift he was into another chunk as his Mackerel baited muppet trace was snaffled. After a slow but steady scrap I scooped up a nice Ling which weighed in at 16lb 14oz. Next drift, we had four fish on at once which resulted in a brace of 8lb Ling, an 11lb 13oz Cod for Tog Edwards and a 13lb 2oz Ling for Gaz Jones. It was like we could do no wrong!
The wreck kept us entertained for a couple of hours and as the sport slowed a little, we had a run down another couple of miles to a nicely spread wreck. We were on the run into slack water, so the drift speed had slowed from 1.2knots down to 0.4knots. The wind blew us gently across the wreck and we got plagued with 3-4lb strap Ling every drift, which isn’t ideal as they don’t go back to the water very well after capture. Just as I was about to move us, Daz Tango hooked a slightly better one a smidge under double figures, but that was the best we got.
Another chat, and we agreed to go and have the last hour on the same wreck that we started the day on, to see if we could get one of the monsters that Chips had lost off. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be, but the lads got a couple of smaller Ling each drift to keep it interesting.
For once; the weather was ok, the fishing wasn’t bad and the company was excellent. Thanks very much lads for a fantastic day out. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
30/08/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
30 Aug 2024 by Nick Gough
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Well yesterday's trips were hard work with very little fish showing.
Today we managed to find two ling over 20Lb both personal best for regular Dave Lakin heaviest fish also beats the fish which claimed the heaviest fish caught on skylark title two days ago
Heaviest fish was 25lb 8oz and the next one was 23lb 5oz.
This is the first double twenty we've had on the boat ever!!!
Also on the same trip heaviest Cod caught was 11lb 4oz
Also caught on the trip the lads had several ling, cod, haddock, pouting, whiting and a few mackerel.
We did also see a minke whale passing while steaming to another wreck View Boats Page
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30/08/2024
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
30 Aug 2024 by Andy Savage
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After a week off for a family holiday, it was back to sea again yesterday.
With a small neap tide, I hoped to spend the day wreck hopping, but unfortunately it just didn’t turn out that way. The only part of the day that went to plan was catching plenty of Mackerel to start off. With a WNW breeze, the wind pushed us out to sea across the tide (which I don’t like) and we tried three wrecks for nothing at all. Then we found one wreck that did one or two fish a drift for half an hour, but then it dried up.
We then tried rough ground at five miles, three miles and another wreck for literally nothing. It was a headbanger of a day and I was as disappointed with the day as the lads were, despite the effort we all put in.
Today with light winds “forecast” and still only a moderate tide, we agreed to have a go on a few wrecks, but to run south to try and get away from the massive amounts of feed that I believe is blighting the sport at Whitby at present. It was one of my fishing days, so there were only seven of us fishing, giving plenty of room. First drift on the first wreck and we had three rods in, wrestling up three reasonable Ling in the 6-8lb class which was a relief after the previous day.
Just as we were getting stuck into a few fish, the wind lifted and whoever guessed the weather should give their head a wobble!! We were treated to NW winds in the 15-17mph range which really made it lumpy and tricky fishing conditions. Credit where credit’s due, the lads just carried on taking fish every drift. We didn’t find anything massive, but a nice stamp of Ling including a couple of doubles to Dave Sharp and Simon West were good to see. We didn’t have loads of Codling, but we did take a couple over 6lb.
Mackerel on muppet traces dominated, but Squid still did a few. Streaming lines meant the shad’s didn’t get a look in.
Thanks for a really enjoyable day lads. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 01/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.52m Andras Pinti - x 2 Gaz Townend - x 4 Carl Peel - x 1View details Tue 04/02/2025 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Will sail with 4 anglers. Davey Mayne - x 3View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Sat 15/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.23m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Hubert Perkowski - x 3 Alan Lawson - x 3View details Tue 18/02/2025 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Mark Thomason - x 1 Mark Northam - x 6View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details -
28/08/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
28 Aug 2024 by Nick Gough
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Finally a bit of a break in the winds today and we managed to get offshore. We started today with a 8 hour trip.
Fishing was pretty much instant from the start which each drift producing.
Today we even saw our heaviest ling aboard Skylark beaten again a cracking 24lb 10oz well done Paul Lester.
His daughter Donna also beat her own PB fish a ling of 15lb 8oz
Many other ling caught well over 10lb. We also had many codling around the 2lb to 5lb area, a Ballen wrasse, pouting a haddock and mackerel
We did manage to see a minke whale passing aswel.
As we had such a successful 8hr trip we took our 3 hour trip out to the wrecks as well. It was quite a steam for a 3hr trip but looking at the amount of good white fish caught it was definitely worth the gamble.
The majority of the anglers had never fished before and it didn't take them long before they became naturals. And they now have Personal best to try and beat next time.
Heaviest fish was a 11lb 5oz ling
Overall the customers caught cod, ling a Pollock, pouting, a herring and a mackerel View Boats Page
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26/08/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
26 Aug 2024 by Nick Gough
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6 hour and 3 hour trips today
Fishing started off really well with shads and lures working well on the last of the flood tide picking odd mackerel up as well.
As the tide turned fishing slowed down as expected and as the ebb came through fishing was steady away.
Overall the customers got some nice fish to take home with everyone catching a few.
Always great to see kids enjoying angling View Boats Page
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25/08/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
25 Aug 2024 by Nick Gough
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8 hour trip today in fresh South westerly winds
Most of the trips we have been able to escape the winds in areas today we found a couple of spots but it was very limited to get shelter on the drift so we resorted to anchoring to start with them we fished on the drift for the majority of the day.
Fishing was difficult today with the conditions and when we opened land up a bit conditions were horrendous
Overall the customer did manage to get some good size Pollock, Ballen wrasse, some codling, and 30 to 40 mackerel.
Unfortunately we had a cancel today's 3 hour trip as we just couldn't seek shelter enough in a 3hr trip View Boats Page
